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...revealing that even in the wake of Kim's nuclear detonation, most Chinese in places like Dandong regard their neighbor with pity more than fear. On the highway leading out of the city, a farmer sits astride a brand-new bright blue motorbike and waits as a fruit seller packs up three large bundles of apples and pears. "I'll take this down to the river tonight, and the North Koreans will be there to trade as usual," he says. He says he swaps the fruit for sheets of copper, most probably stolen, usually one piece of fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Beijing is so Reluctant to Cut off Trade with North Korea | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

World-renowned anthropologist Paul Farmer stressed the role of government in securing the right to health care, in a speech to a packed Sanders Theatre Friday night...

Author: By Nadav Greenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Farmer: Health Insurance Is a Right | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...peaceful settlement of the dispute with Israel. Despite the blockade of Gaza, many Palestinians still have a few good memories of Israelis. Feheme, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy with blood cancer, was twice treated in Jerusalem and still gets follow-up calls from his doctor. A farmer whose orange groves were shelled 12 times by Israelis after militants set off a rocket in a nearby field still talks fondly of his Israeli friends. But although he opposes the Palestinian militants and the rain of destruction they attract from the Israeli side, he says that "if I start complaining about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: No Doves in Sight | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...Most Profound Man in Iraq - an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Letter From Iraq | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...beyond war. As a teenager in Fort Washington, Md., she set up an AIDS ministry in her church. And although her faculty advisor Ender says she could have been literally anything she wanted to, she was most passionate about global-health issues. "She could have been the next Paul Farmer," says Ender. "That's the commitment, and the talent, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Death in the Class of 9/11 | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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